Did the devs explicitly mention that BLU can't raid?

[Krokov]

Which mobs use level 5 death and how Do you form a full alliance of 23 people Outside of the duty finder?

[InkstainedGwyn]

Which mobs use level 5 death and how Do you form a full alliance of 23 people Outside of the duty finder?

You can actually make alliance parties in party finder. It's how my FC unsyncs CT & VA.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Yeah, the first time I did Crystal Tower and Shadows of Mhach was an unsynced PF after I caught up to Stormblood.

[Deceptus]

Which mobs use level 5 death and how Do you form a full alliance of 23 people Outside of the duty finder?

Pretty sure The Page 64 enemy in gubal library uses lvl 5 death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...level_5_death/

Now whether or not a lvl 50 can go in there is a different story.

[Nihility]

I sort of imagine BLU will always be sort of behind on levels which will make them nonviable for raiding just statistically.
Their limitation on doing group content is just need to premade though so i guess we'll see when it gets to that point?

[Liale]

See, this Yoshi P talking, so we need to read between the lines. Remember he said "We said that BLU does not fit into XIVs system, but we didn't say we wouldn't add it", and "We said that adding a new job during a patch would be too much work, but we didn't say we wouldn't do it".

We have two pieces of information, which is what BLU is designed for, and what it can and cannot do. One of those pieces of information is that BLU can do most instanced content as a pre-formed party, and a lot of the justification for locking it out of matchmaking and special battle content makes sense, raids not so much.

Also ask yourself, why didn't they just wait until the expansion? New jobs are used to sell expansions, so why are they adding BLU in 4.5 with no expansion requirement? The answer would be the same as why they added custom deliveries in 3.5, to test the waters with a new experimental feature to expand upon it in the expansion.

Yoshi P does not give bonus content ever, what he does is say we are working on it please look forward to it and then you never see it or you see it 3-4 years later. Sooooooooo yeah you read through those lines and 3-4 years later you will finally get it when everyone has forgotten about it or you will just never see it. They didn't add it to test the waters, they added it to stave off pre-expansion boredom and because it's designed for force you to do their old world content making it look like it's not dead. I suspect they will fail on both accounts as atma the minigame sounds ghastly and it will only keep the world looking alive for like maybe a month. So yeah, lets revisit this in 3-4 years and see if they are just testing it for later.

[Derio]

You cannot use it in endgame content or any content that is not unsyncable. Also you cannot use it in the DF. Which mean all groups asking for lvl 50 content and below for Blue mage.

It is unbalanced for group play.

If they ever do put it as a job that is unlimited, they would nerf most if not all of its abilities.